Hi all,

We've identified the following repos as being the repos we want to donate
to Apache:

community-ruby (2376 files)
community-soa (11770 files files)
community-uml (6365 files)
community-visualweb (6339 files)
community-xml (2326 files)
html4j (280 files)
jackpot30 (964 files)
(main)contrib
(main)misc (5076 files)
plsql-support (2341 files)
releases (100548 files)
releases-l10n (33348 files)

However, we can't contribute something we haven't reviewed. We can only
give to Apache what is ours to give. We can't make licensing decisions for
someone else's code. E.g., we can't donate Oracle logos, for example. And
there are several other logos too. We can't donate all kinds of things if
they're not actually ours to donate.

Starting from the smallest repo, i.e., 'html4j', the repos are being
reviewed. That particular repo took less than a day to review, yes, someone
is going through the repo paintakingly looking at files for licensing
concerns and anything else that could be odd for whatever reason. And then
the concerns discovered need to be discussed and handled.

Yes, this is taking time -- still, once done we'll know for sure that
things are good and ready. We're doing something right now that I had
thought we'd be doing throughout incubation in the Apache Git repo. Instead
of that, we're doing it before getting it into the Apache Git repo. This is
something that Oracle wants and must do, itself, i.e., no one else, outside
Oracle, should be involved in this since it is Oracle that is donating the
code and not anyone else.

Hard to give a time estimate for the above, though I imagine some weeks at
least are involved.

We're moving along and there is progress and the end is clear. In the end
this will have been a good process for its thoroughness and for having
avoided situations with unknown unknowns, since everything will ultimately
come to light as this investigation continues.

Gj

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